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2.
[All sciences a fasting Monsieur knows]
Græculus esuriens in cœlum jusseris, ibit.
Juv, Sat. III. 78.
Juv, Sat. III. 78.
All sciences a fasting Monsieur knows;
And, bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.
Johnson's London.
And, bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.
Johnson's London.
Thus Johnson, liberal translator,
Express'd the Roman poet's satire.
Time has a closer version given:—
Invading us, the Gaul scales heaven;
And, should his soul to heaven e'er stray,
By England is its shortest way.
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